Bruno, I kneel at your feet. This is awesome. I'm trying to solve a similar problem, and have struggled with getting the solutions to work. I've been stuck at using background images, which fail of course when the user changes the font size. Your solution does not suffer this issue.
Thanks so very much! > From: Bruno Fassino <fass...@gmail.com> > > You don't say exactly how do you like the text "sitting" on the lines. > I tried in the past several tricks to show visible "baselines" under > some text, without finding a clean solution, at least in the general > case when you have several lines of text, and don't know how it wraps. > (Moreover you mention sIFR, so you probably have the additional > problem of trying to display a font possibly not installed on the > client). > > Anyway, here [1] is one of my attempts to display "baselines" under > some paragraphs of text: the idea is to add elements (like images, or > inline-blocks in this case) that can precisely be positioned on the > baseline and then stretch them to full width. In this attempt to avoid > cluttering the markup with non semantic elements, those extra element > are added by a javascript (which is a bit simplified: it assumes that > the paragraphs contain just text, no other elements). > The method seems to work in most browsers (including IE6+), but of > course it adds a lot of "garbage", just to get few lines... > The third paragraph uses a non-common font, included with a @font-face > declaration (this of course works in a more limited set of browsers). > > Best regards, > Bruno > > > [1] http://brunildo.org/test/baselines1.html > > -- > Bruno Fassino http://www.brunildo.org/test ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
